INVESTMENT PROGRAMS

Public Works
The Public Works Program empowers distressed communities to revitalize, expand, and upgrade their physical infrastructure to attract new industry, encourage business expansion, diversify local economies, and generate or retain long-term, private sector jobs and investment.

Economic Adjustment Assistance Program
The Economic Adjustment Program assists state and local interests to design and implement strategies to adjust or bring about change to an economy.  The program focuses on areas that have experienced or are under threat of serious structural damage to the underlying economic base. 

Research and National Technical Assistance
The Research and Technical Assistance Program supports research of leading edge, world class economic development practices as well as funds information dissemination efforts.

Local Technical Assistance
The Technical Assistance Program helps fill the knowledge and information gaps that may prevent leaders in the public and nonprofit sectors in distressed areas from making optimal decisions on local economic development issues.

Partnership Planning
EDA’s Partnership Planning programs help support local organizations (Economic Development Districts, Indian Tribes, and other eligible areas) with their long-term planning efforts and their outreach to the economic development community on EDA’s programs and policies.

University Center
The University Center Program is a partnership of federal government and academia that makes the varied and vast resources of universities available to the economic development community.

Trade Adjustment Assistance
EDA uses a national network of twelve Trade Adjustment Assistance Centers to help manufacturers and producers affected by increased imports prepare and implement strategies to guide their economic recovery.